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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452816503321

Autore

Dowell Kristin L

Titolo

Sovereign screens : aboriginal media on the Canadian West Coast / / Kristin L. Dowell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8032-4894-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Disciplina

301.0971133

Soggetti

Indigenous films - British Columbia - Vancouver

Indigenous peoples in motion pictures

Indigenous peoples - British Columbia - Vancouver

Motion picture producers and directors - British Columbia - Vancouver

Motion pictures in ethnology - British Columbia - Vancouver

Visual anthropology - British Columbia - Vancouver

Electronic books.

Canada Cultural policy

Vancouver (B.C.) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Vancouver's aboriginal media world -- The indigenous media arts group -- Canadian cultural policy and aboriginal media -- Aboriginal diversity on-screen -- Building community off-screen -- Cultural protocol in aboriginal media -- Visual sovereignty in aboriginal experimental media -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

While Indigenous media have gained increasing prominence around the world, the vibrant Aboriginal media world on the Canadian West Coast has received little scholarly attention. As the first ethnography of the Aboriginal media community in Vancouver, Sovereign Screens reveals the various social forces shaping Aboriginal media production including community media organizations and avant-garde art centers, as well as the national spaces of cultural policy and media institutions. Kristin L. Dowell uses the concept of visual sovereignty to examine the practices,



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